Limits a candidate for public office to one authorized committee per election; defines the term "multi-candidate committee" and provides that such a committee may not be authorized by a candidate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1637
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to limiting a candidate to
one authorized committee per election, per office
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. "multi-candidate committee" means a political committee which has
4 been in existence for at least six months, has received contributions of
5 money from more than fifty persons, has made contributions of money to
6 at least five candidates in New York state, makes only monetary contrib-
7 utions and is not an authorized committee for any candidate.
8 § 2. Section 14-112 of the election law, as amended by section 8 of
9 part A of chapter 286 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
10 follows:
11 § 14-112. Political committee authorization statement. Any political
12 committee aiding or taking part in the election or nomination of any
13 candidate, other than [a political action committee] by making contrib-
14 utions, shall file, in the office in which the statements of such
15 committee are to be filed pursuant to this article, either a sworn veri-
16 fied statement by the treasurer of such committee and the candidate that
17 [the] such candidate has authorized the political committee to aid or
18 take part in [his] such candidate's election or a sworn verified state-
19 ment by the treasurer of such committee that the candidate has not
20 authorized the committee to aid or take part in [his] such candidate's
21 election. No candidate may authorize more than one committee for any
22 one election. A multi-candidate committee may not be an authorized
23 committee.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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